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Tumour deposits following choroidal melanoma treatment
7 April 2021
| Annes Ahmeidat
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Choroidal melanoma, Metastasis, Recurrence, Retinal melanoma, Retinoinvasive melanoma, Uveal melanoma
The authors present the unique case of retinoinvasive melanoma following treatment of choroidal melanoma with brachytherapy. Uveal melanoma, the commonest intraocular malignancy in adults, presents as a pigmented mass in the choroid, ciliary body, or iris. A 79-year-old Caucasian male...
How long to wait to refract after instilling cyclo drops for children with brown irides?
3 April 2023
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Cyclopentolate, brown irides, cycloplegia, cycloplegic refraction, refraction
This study aimed to assess the time needed for effective cycloplegia after instillation of 1% cyclopentolate drops in children with brown irides. The study recruited 161 consecutive patients aged three to 16 years. All had refraction on arrival, then instillation...
Outcomes of plaque radiotherapy for retinoblastoma
3 April 2023
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The study authors evaluate their experience of plaque radiotherapy for retinoblastoma (RB) in 41 eyes of 41 patients that failed intra-arterial chemotherapy (IAC). This was a retrospective review including 21 females and 20 males. Median age was 18 months and...
Patient changes eye colour permanently and has brighter and whiter looking eyes
1 December 2017
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Cornea / External Eye Disease, Ophthalmology
In this new series, Simerdip Kaur takes a look at the latest ophthalmology-related news stories and asks which are scientific reality and which are ‘fake news’. Headline: Patient changes eye colour permanently and has brighter and whiter looking eyes If...
End stage glaucoma management
1 August 2014
| Yajati K Ghosh
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Glaucoma
A 48-year-old female has had multiple drug treatment for glaucoma and is still losing field of vision. How do you manage this over time? This patient is at high-risk for going blind and should be managed aggressively to protect remaining...
Cataract surgery in patients with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada
1 February 2019
| Tasmin Berman
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
This retrospective, interventional case series of 286 patients (408 eyes) assessed visual outcome and prognostic factors in patients with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) undergoing cataract surgery between September 2008 and December 2017. Two groups were reviewed. The first group (352 eyes) had...
Current concepts of the uveitis-glaucoma-hyphaema (UGH) syndrome
4 December 2023
| Kurt Spiteri Cornish
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
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Uveitis-glaucoma-hyphema syndrome, cataract surgery, cystoid macular edema, secondary IOL, vitreous hemorrhage
The authors discuss pathophysiology, aetiology and current management strategies of UGH syndrome. The clinical features of UGH are different than initial descriptions. UGH today is most often associated with posterior chamber IOLs that are not placed within the capsular bag...
Penetrating keratoplasties in infants
1 August 2016
| Magdalena Popiela
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
This retrospective review looked at endothelial cell counts (ECC) following penetrating keratoplasties (PKP) performed in infants within the first year of their life. One hundred eyes of 71 patients had their first PKP during the study period (1998-2013). In 30%...
ICG TTT for retinoblastoma
1 August 2016
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
Transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT) is a specific form of ocular TT using infrared radiation (diode laser). Indocyanine green (ICG) is also used to achieve the optimal phototherapy effect in eyes with minimal pigment. Twenty-one patients with 42 retinoblastomas in 30 eyes...
Prognostic information for PRP-naive patients
1 February 2015
| Saruban Pasu
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
The Diabetic Retinopathy Study group demonstrated that pan retinal laser photocoagulation (PRP) reduces severe vision loss by up to 50% in cases of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). The authors of this current study aimed to provide information for laser naive...
Sutureless 27-gauge needle intrascleral intraocular lens implantation
1 June 2014
| Brian Ang
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Ophthalmology
The authors report on a prospective, non-comparative, interventional case series of patients undergoing sutureless intrascleral fixation of a posterior chamber three piece intraocular lens (IOL) using a 27-gauge needle for docking. Sutureless techniques have the advantage of not having complex...
Swept-source OCT for measuring peripheral anterior synechiae
1 December 2013
| Brian Ang
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Glaucoma
The authors report on a cross-sectional study looking at swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) for measuring the area and degree of peripheral anterior synechiae (PAS) in patients with angle closure glaucoma. The SS-OCT is commercially available, has a laser wavelength...